Posted on 10/10/2008 6:26:21 PM PDT by daytrader
The Obama campaign’s Muslim outreach director participated in a meeting in mid September that was attended by several controversial Muslim activists, NBC News has learned. The Obama campaign now concedes that was a misjudgment, and that its top Muslim staffer would not have attended the meeting if she had known the full participant list beforehand.
“Would a campaign staffer have attended if they were aware of the complete list of attendees? No,” said Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt in an email statement to NBC.
The Muslim outreach meeting On September 15, newly named Muslim outreach director Minha Husaini spoke to a small group of Muslim leaders and potential Obama supporters at a hotel in Springfield, Virginia, several meeting participants and the campaign said. Two other Obama-affiliated Democratic Party workers joined Husaini and also spoke to the crowd. Some Virginia and Washington, D.C.-based Muslim activists and interested citizens attended, and flyers were passed out from “Arab Americans for Obama” stating Sen. Obama’s goals for achieving peace in the Middle East, protecting the civil liberties of Arab Americans and ending the war in Iraq.
Several participants told NBC News that Husaini and other speakers delivered a standard Obama campaign pitch. “They said, ‘We’re here to get the concerns of Muslim voters and let everyone know that the Obama campaign does want the support of the Muslim community,’ ” recalled one participant, who requested anonymity. The meeting was not advertised and some attendees got text phone messages notifying them that day of the meeting’s location, the participant said.
Nearly a month later, the meeting is drawing controversy--and not because of anything said at the meeting itself.
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BS.
You’re only “sorry” you got caught.
These people will be all over the White House if Barry is elected.
Mistake, my ass. HE GOT CAUGHT!
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Notice to McCain campaign...
And this proves my view that McCain answered that woman who asked about Obama being an Arab...just right!
the news is out about Bambi’s muzzie connections...yet it is not McCain who has to say it!
All I want to see is “Obama concedes.”
I am sure that this outreach was in keeping with the dictates of his Musli — uh, Christian faith.
Another "renegade staffer" goes under the bus by Team Obama.
NBC did this?
I guess Obama’s check must have bounced.
Here we go again.....this is not the Muslim outreach program that I used to know.....I still think we cn win this but I’m also taking action if we don’t.
“You’re only “sorry” you got caught.”
Bttt
Freaking A, every time the man turns around he gets caught about sometihing and his respond I did not know that.
It is clear that JSM has lost control of his campaign and Palin is the top of the ticket. Personally I thing JSM would rather lose than have Palin have the popularity she has.
What the hell is wrong with JSM, to say Barry Hussein Obama is a descent person. No he is not, Barry Hussein Obama is an anti-American anti-white anti-semtic socialist bigot.
Ok enough rant, I'll take a deep breath and have a glass of wine. Oh hell a good stiff drink!
“Would a campaign staffer have attended if they were aware of the complete list of attendees? No,” ...
I always laugh a little inside whenever someone is addressing an audience and asks themselves a question and then answers it. It’s as if asking the question somehow diffuses the answer that follows. A lot of people do this. I think rumsfeld was the first person I recall doing it. Am I certain it was rumsfeld? No. But that is what I recall.
Senator Hussein Obama is a what? ROFLMAO!
“NBC News has learned”
s/b
“NBC News has just learned, even though this information has been available to everyone else pretty much since it happened”
The WHO????????
So it's O.K. to meet and be friends with a known terrorist like William Ayers and only a "mistake" to meet with controversial Muslim activists?
I guess Obama thinks Americans are stupid enough to give him a pass on Ayers when we are concerned about only meeting potential scumbags
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